ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a cross-sectional sample from secondary schools as well as community interviews and focuses on group data to provide a representational analysis of Nsukka Igbo educational and cultural perspectives. Important cultural information is embedded in foundational behaviors. The cultural traditions, mores, ceremonies, and rites are reinforced generation to generation. Knowing that language differences and difficulties in translations may arise and complicate the research data is recognized but, simultaneously, significant information was collected and translated to reveal traditional and historical Igbo educational procedures in comparison and contrast to contemporary federal science schooling for girls. During British colonial rule prior to Nigerian Independence in October 1960, a Western education system was imposed by the British administration in partnership with missionary organizations. Knowledge can be transmitted in many ways but for historically traditional cultures, such as the Igbo culture in Nigeria, members typically learn cultural paradigms and the consequential Indigenous Knowledge through action and conversation.
